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Women told to tap their managerial skills

Staff Reporter

`It is only when women working in every field have the right attitude, new face of management will emerge'

HYDERABAD: If members of the Andhra Pradesh Secretariat Women Employees Welfare Association were looking for some motivating words on the occasion of International Women's Day, then they got them in ample measure from Kiran Bedi, first woman IPS officer.

In an interactive session at the Ravindra Bharathi here on Thursday, Director-General, Bureau of Police Training and Development, Ms. Bedi, said women as a class did not yet make a difference to the role played by men. "If they had, they would have ushered in a new management culture. Barring few individuals, women did not pave path to a new work culture. Many women, like men, were also arrested for corruption."

In the new age, one was not looking for mere employment percentage of women but for the good governance they would bring in with a fair, positive and fearless attitude. "Ask yourself if you are the new age woman, capable of taking right decisions? It is only when women working in every possible field have the right attitude, new face of management and leadership will emerge," the Magsaysay awardee said.

Ms. Bedi demolished the eternal dilemma of women about their primary responsibility. "Give up the dichotomy in thought. Her role is not different from that of the man in the changing times. Her duty is to become her own decision maker and architect of her own destiny, by being confident, independent, contributing and self-respecting. Both men and women are interdependent".

She also said women should retain a right on their earnings after contributing to the family kitty by having their own personal bank accounts.

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